On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 02:27:55PM +0000, Ian Lynagh wrote:
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 09:40:25PM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote:
Last call for objections or comments.
We'd like to get this into Language.Haskell.Extension asap so we can include it in the Cabal distributed with ghc-6.8.2. Currently there are packages that compiled fine with Cabal and ghc-6.6.x but not with ghc-6.8.x because we're missing these new more fine-grained language extensions.
I'd much rather see http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/147 fixed. Then Cabal would work with future GHCs, with new extensions as yet undreamt of, as well.
Yes, I would like to see this too, I have not really done a lot of work integrating jhc with cabal, but this 'baked in' extension type was something of an issue. (jhc itself understands a subset of the cabal file type and can build libraries based on them with jhc --build-hl). There are a couple other places where a 'newtype String' made more sense too if I recall. Perhaps just a simple wiki page where we can "register" extension names is in order as there are a few jhc understands that arn't in the cabal extension type (nor should they be if this fix is completed). John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈